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That would mean that every church, and everyone in its congregation who contributes to that church,
if it gives charity in the form of food to the poor, which of course would include many who aren't working,
those churches are acting contrary to the teachings of the Bible?
Why then do you give money to your church?
This is what happens when you don't teach people how to think.
He cited it as if it were a teaching from the Bible.
It is a teaching from the Bible:
For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. (2 Thess 3:10)
We as a people should be ashamed of our ignorance of the scripture. People died bring the Bible to the people in English. And with all the blessings of modern technology and the ease of which it could be before us, we are more ignorant of it now than before it was translated into English.